Archive for January, 2008

Speaking Of Citations …

January 25, 2008 in Meta

I mentioned the JSTOR version of one of my old book reviews a few months ago. I meant to’ve mentioned this but couldn’t put my virtual hands on it. Yep. There it is all right.

Calm Yet Eloquent

January 25, 2008 in Uncategorized

\bulletThere’s not much math—okay, none at all—in this recent reprint of a 2003 interview with Chandler Davis (from the paraliterary journal Paradoxa, via Ray Davis’s Bellona Times Repress). So here’s his Google Scholar page (and here, alas, is mine).

Please Lie Less Carefully

January 18, 2008 in Blogs

Wednesday’s “Seeing the World Like a Corporation”, by Tom Hoffman of Tuttle SVC articulately (and, for my money, rightly) accused Dan Meyer of selling sizzle, not steak. Of course Meyer immediately denied it. Hoffman’s response followed yesterday. From now on, you’re on your own.

I’ve argued with Meyer before, in these comment threads for example. Probably I’m done; we just inhabit different universes and I might as well get used to it. As for “working hard to make it look easy”–if it ain’t easy and you make it look easy, that’s called lying, and I’m against it.

Ars Brevis, Vita Longa

January 18, 2008 in Carnival

\bulletThe 24th Carnival of Mathematics.

Go To Lunch.

January 15, 2008 in Uncategorized

\bulletRalph Raimi recently translated a French counter-reform paper and Mindless Math Mutterings has the link.

As Seen In Mad Magazine

January 14, 2008 in Links

\bulletKnuth turns 70, a few days back at GPD. Also Mark CC on Knuth led me to several more links.
\bullet“Mathematicians and … Educationists” conference announcement at MUtM.

Back To Work

January 8, 2008 in Links

I’ve been dreading it but actually it’s sort of exhilarating. Links of the day.

\bulletSol WAM! reviews MathNotations (blog) and Maria Mathmom’s Math Mammoth Geometry (book).
\bulletRemarks on the game of Rush Hour at Letters to Nature.

Still Enjoying The Break (Eat Your Hearts Out)

January 2, 2008 in Links

\bulletThe best of “Let’s play math!” for 2007. I oughta do this myself.
\bulletHey, another year in review post (by mathmom, citing me). No, wait! Here’s an index of math-blog year-in-review pages. Wow.
\bulletI’ve just learned about Richard Elmore (at KTM; more here). Looks like this guy understands the politics of education about as well as any professor of education I’ve ever heard of …
\bullet23 Mathematical Challenges briefly reviewed at neverendingbooks.
\bullet“Phase shift or phase angle?” at squareCircleZ.
\bulletrandomwalker on the Turing test.
\bullet“Math is the Root of All Evil”.